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Amazon SCS-C02 Exam - Topic 1 Question 40 Discussion

Actual exam question for Amazon's SCS-C02 exam
Question #: 40
Topic #: 1
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An AWS account includes two S3 buckets: bucketl and bucket2. The bucket2 does not have a policy defined, but bucketl has the following bucket policy:

In addition, the same account has an 1AM User named "alice", with the following 1AM policy.

Which buckets can user "alice" access?

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Suggested Answer: C

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Malissa
3 months ago
I thought she might access both, but I guess not!
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Melvin
3 months ago
Yup, just bucketl for Alice.
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Elke
3 months ago
Wait, are you sure about that? What if there's a default policy?
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Cyndy
4 months ago
Totally agree, bucket2 has no policy!
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Lachelle
4 months ago
Alice can access bucketl only.
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Mariko
4 months ago
Based on what I studied, I believe Alice can only access bucketl. Bucket2's lack of a policy likely means no permissions are granted there.
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Shawnda
4 months ago
I'm a bit confused. Does the lack of a policy on bucket2 mean Alice can't access it at all? I need to double-check how S3 bucket policies work.
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Alfred
4 months ago
I remember a practice question where IAM policies were crucial. I feel like Alice might only have access to bucketl based on the policy shown.
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Juliana
5 months ago
I think Alice can access bucketl because of the policy, but I'm not sure about bucket2 since it has no policy defined.
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Aleta
5 months ago
I'm pretty confident I know the answer here. Since bucket2 doesn't have a policy defined, and the IAM policy grants "alice" read-only access, she can access both bucket1 and bucket2.
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Ahmad
5 months ago
Okay, I think I've got this. The bucket policy for bucket1 allows "alice" to perform all actions on that bucket. But the IAM policy for "alice" only grants read-only access. So she can access bucket1, but only with read permissions.
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Joanna
5 months ago
Hmm, I'm a bit confused by the different policies. I'll need to make sure I understand how they interact to determine the final access permissions.
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Paola
5 months ago
This looks like a tricky one. I'll need to carefully review the bucket policy and IAM policy to determine which buckets the user "alice" can access.
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Delbert
1 year ago
Hold on, I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would name a bucket 'bucketl'. Seriously, who comes up with these names? Anyway, I think the answer is C as well, but I'm just hoping the real exam questions are more creative.
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Frederica
11 months ago
User4: That's what I was thinking too. Hopefully the real exam questions are more interesting.
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Susy
11 months ago
User3: I think the answer is C, both bucketl and bucket2.
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Beatriz
12 months ago
User2: Yeah, I wonder why they didn't just name it something more descriptive.
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Alonso
12 months ago
User1: I agree, 'bucketl' is a strange name for a bucket.
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Ilda
1 year ago
I agree with Dallas, the policy seems to allow access to both buckets.
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Berry
1 year ago
I believe you can only access bucket1 because bucket2 doesn't have a policy.
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Dallas
1 year ago
I think I can access both buckets because my policy allows it.
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Rickie
1 year ago
I agree with the previous candidate. The key here is that the bucket2 doesn't have a policy, so Alice can access it based on the IAM policy. And the bucket policy on bucketl explicitly allows Alice to perform all actions. Looks like the correct answer is C.
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Marsha
1 year ago
Hmm, let's see. Based on the bucket policy and IAM policy, I think Alice can access both bucketl and bucket2. The bucket policy on bucketl allows Alice to perform all actions, and the IAM policy doesn't have any restrictions on accessing bucket2 since it doesn't have a policy defined.
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Delsie
1 year ago
That's correct. The bucket policy on bucketl allows all actions and the IAM policy doesn't restrict access to bucket2.
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Meghann
1 year ago
Alice can access both bucketl and bucket2.
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